Hu Jin-tao is visiting the US to protect his country’s investment in our future, what with holding 25-odd percent of our debt. Because the visit is all about business he went to see America’s premier business man, Bill Gates, first, before going on to see his Chief Debtor, George Bush.
President Hu and Mr Gates allegedly reached some sort of agreement regarding software piracy, which is a huge money maker in China, where intellectually property rights seems to mean that intellectuals have the right to be owned by the Chinese People’s government. It’s an open secret in China and among those who make their living selling over-priced beta test software like Windows XP and its new replacement Windows Vista, that the Chinese Red Army has the major franchise in China for Windows software piracy, and don’t try to set up an independent shop to compete against them, because they also have the national concession on human organs for export.
IBM sold off their hardware manufacturing last year to Lenovo, a domestic Chinese company, for a reported $1.2 Billion, and now President Hu and Mr Gates have arranged a face-saving gesture wherein China will pay Microsoft for the licensing rights to manufacture and pre-install Windows on the PCs that used to be made by Americans, and will now be made overseas. Sad news for the US citizens who will now move on from their well-paid high tech jobs into the new and exciting field of pizza delivery, though.
President Hu also made a deal to buy 80 planes from Boeing for a reported $5.2 Billion. This is a good deal because it means that at least some Americans will keep their jobs for a few years more. At the present time the Chinese don’t have a really strong airplane manufacturing industry, although they do make some fairly decent military models.
In a combination of military concern and a slowly wakening realization that China will be the most serious economic and political threat to the US through the first half of the 21st century, the US has begun another “transformation” (yes, one of those Rumsfeld things) of their military in the Pacific.
WASHINGTON - The United States is equipping its forces for high tech expeditionary warfare, in part as a hedge against the uncertainties posed by China's military build-up, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday."It is US policy to encourage China to emerge as a responsible international partner," said Bryan Whitman. "However, there is also a lack of transparency and some uncertainty surrounding China's future path."
"Therefore, we and others have to naturally hedge against the unknown," he told reporters here.
His visit is playing out against a backdrop of US concern about China's intentions as it pursues a major military build-up that the Pentagon believes threatens the military balance in region.The United States also has been modernizing and reorienting its military forces in recent years, shifting its weight from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region and south Asia.
It has revamped its military alliance with Japan, and moved to strengthen military ties with India and countries in southeast and central Asia.
Well, we’ve been seeing how well that forward positioning in the south Asia region has been going. But of course, that’s a land war and just not much in it for the Navy. China, on the other hand, will not be a land warfare opponent. For now, the US has been trying to isolate China from as much fossil fuel as possible by stealing protecting the middle east oil resources.
Guam is being transformed into a hub for long range bombers, intelligence and surveillance aircraft, and logistics support. The military plans to move 8,000 marines to Guam from Okinawa by 2012.The US Navy is adding a sixth aircraft carrier to the Pacific Fleet and has decided to home port 52 attack submarines -- 60 percent of its fleet -- in the Pacific theatre by 2010.
The navy also is changing the way it maintains and mans its warships to be able to deploy four aircraft carrier battle groups in the Pacific at a time.
Billions of dollars are being invested to acquire costly F-22 fighter aircraft capable of cruising at supersonic speeds and develop a new long range bomber, all with an eye on China.
A cynical man would think Bu$hCo expects China to want to fight for oil.
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One thing I dont get is this: oil has to be just as expensive for China and India as it is for us. One would think they would try to learn from our mistakes and skip right over the whole dead dinosaurs thing and go right to alternative and/or renewable energy sources.
Dead donosaurs are just the most technologically convenient, reliable, and safest method of making electricity at this time. Nuclear energy is more efficient in some ways and cleaner in others, but is it safer? Remember: for manufacturing, the goal is to produce electricity.
Here's a renewable source China's been working on for more than a decade.
http://www.irn.org/programs/threeg/
umm...In all this 'who's got a bigger dick' fight between US & China, can you chaps leave India out of it?
Our numbskull Defence minister signed the usual boilerplate Commom defense treaty or whatever legalese that sets the thing for US bases, no arresting Americans for crimes in India et al.
If you chaps are paranoid about China, that's your problem. Pelase don't sign us up as conscripts by telling us we'll give you F-16s, nuclear power, apache helicopters, P3 orions, troop transporters plane C3s and the like.
KNOWING the GOI, the fucktards would buy all of them, so that key officiers in the Forces gets to send thier sons to USA for higher studies.
I HATE this all too familiar war jingoism and the attendant idea that India should be a counterweight to China by proxy through the USA.
Shanks as far as I care, you're more than welcome to all the F-16s and Apaches you want, because I know who GOI's two primary enemies are, and I'm not particularly fond of either of them.
And I promise not to talk about India's "dicK" either.
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